Dual flavor cigar or cigarette



Aug- 2, 1960 A. KONRAD 2,947,310

DUAL FLAvoR CIGAR 0R CIGARETTE Filed March 12, 1959 /h EIA/vos@ KONRADINVENTOH ATTORNEYS United States DUAL FLAVOR CIGAR R CIGARETTE AlexanderKonrad, 7431 Ridgewood Drive, Parma, hio Filed Mar. 12, 1959, Ser. No.798,884 1 Claim. (Cl. 131-9) This invention relates to a cigar orcigarette, the primary object of the invention being to provide a cigaror cigarette which is constructed to produce a dual iiavor, with theresult that a person smoking the cigar or cigarette may, by lighting thecigar or cigarette at one end, cause the burning of the cigar orcigarette to produce a avor distinguished from the avor of the smokeincident to the burning of natural tobacco, used in the manufacture ofcigars or cigarettes, when the other end of the cigar or cigarette islit.

An important object of the invention is to provide a cigar or cigarettewherein a distinguishing flavor producing element surrounds the tobaccoat a point adjacent to one end of the cigar or cigarette to saturate thesmoke produced during lthe smoking of the cigar or cigarette,transferring the avor to the mouth of the smoker.

Another object of the invention is the provision of marking means forindicating the end of the cigarette in which the avoring medium iscontained, so that the selection as to the end of the cigarette desiredto be lit, may be readily and accurately made.

Other and further objects and advantages of the invention will behereinafter described, and the novel features thereof defined in theappended claim.

Referring to the drawing:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a cigar, constructed in accordance withthe invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional view, taken on the section line 2 2 of Fig. 1and looking in the direction of the arrows.

Figure 3 is a sectional view showing the invention embodied in acigarette.

Referring to the drawing in detail, and to Figs. 1 and 2 in particularthe reference character indicates generally a cigar constructed inaccordance with the invention, the cigar including a wrapper of theusual tobacco leaf wrapping and a filler 11, the filler 11 constitutingthe natural leaf tobacco used in cigar manufacture.

At a point adjacent to one end of the cigar proper there is a avoringmedium 12 made of material which, when subjected to the heat of theburning tobacco at one end of the cigarette, will cause the burning ofthe davoring medium to saturate the smoke which is drawn through thecigarette by the smoker. The avoring medium is in the form of an annulus12, which surrounds the leaf tobacco 9 and is encompassed by the leafwrapper 10, as shown by Fig. 2 of the drawing.

If the person smoking the cigar wishes to smoke same in the usual way,that is without the avoring medium,

the other end of the cigar is lit by the smoker, whereupon the smokewhich is drawn through the cigar does not in any way become saturatedwith the avoring medium, since no heat is produced at the burning end ofthe cigar to effect the smoke.

A band indicated by the reference character 13 and which is of theconventional character, is shown as positioned adjacent to the end ofthe cigar in which the flavoring medium 12 is embedded, this indicatesto the person using the cigar, which end of the cigar should be lit inorder to provide a flavored smoke.

It is also contemplated to stamp on the cover of the cigarette, directlyadjacent to one end of the cigarette, the letters FL indicating avor sothat the proper end of the cigarette to be lighted may be selected.

The iiavoring material used in the manufacture of the cigar may be ofany desired material which will add the desired avor to the smoke fromthe cigar, which may embody any of the known starches and sugars, orinorganic compounds that would produce the desired flavor.

In Fig. 3 the invention is shown as applied to a cigarette. Thereference numeral 15 here indicates a cigarette of the usualconstruction including a wrapper 16 of paper, and a filler 17, thisfiller being comprised by the natural ground leaf tobacco used incigarette manufacture. The annulus 12 of iavoring medium is providedadjacent one end of the cigarette, within the wrapper 16 and partiallysurrounding the ller 17.

From the foregoing it will be seen that due to the construction shownand described, I have provided a cigar `or cigarette which is soconstructed that a flavor-ing medium which is disposed in one end of-the cigar or cigarette will be effected by the heat from. the burningend of the cigarette adjacent to the liavoring medium.

Should it be desired to avoid the flavored smoke, it is only necessaryto light the other end of the cigar or cigarette which contains only thenatural tobacco leaf to be burned.

Having thus described the What is claimed is:

A cigar or cigarette comprising a wrapper, a tobacco ller encased insaid wrapper, a smoke avoring medium in the form of a band encirclingthe tobacco filler between the ller and said wrapper adjacent to one endof the cigar or cigarette, said flavoring band being reactable to theheat of the burning cigar or cigarette, thereby producing a flavoringmedium avoring the smoke drawn through the cigarette when the end ofsaid cigarette containing the ltering band is lit, and means disposed onthe Iwrapper indicating the end of the cigar or cigarette in which saidflavoring band is retained.

invention- References Cited in the le of this patent UNITED STATESPATENTS 968,284 Strause Aug. 23, 1910 1,784,386 Poeck Dec. 9, 1930FOREIGN PATENTS 243,199 Great Britain Nov. 26, 1925 348,974 GreatBritain May 21, 1931

